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The Mapmaker's Children

2015 | Fiction & Poetry

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Baker's Daughter, a story of family, love, and courage

When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she becomes one of the Underground Railroad’s leading mapmakers, taking her cues from the slave code quilts and hiding her maps within her paintings. She boldly embraces this calling after being told the shocking news that she can’t bear children, but as the country steers toward bloody civil war, Sarah faces difficult sacrifices that could put all she loves in peril.
Eden, a modern woman desperate to conceive a child with her husband, moves to an old house in the suburbs and discovers a porcelain head hidden in the root cellar—the remains of an Underground Railroad doll with an extraordinary past of secret messages, danger and deliverance.
Ingeniously plotted to a riveting end, Sarah and Eden’s woven lives connect the past to the present, forcing each of them to define courage, family, love, and legacy in a new way.



Published by Crown

Edition Hardcover
ISBN 9780385348904
Language English

Historical > Historical Fiction Fiction Historical Military History > Civil War

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Heather (4 KP) rated

May 31, 2018  
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The Mapmaker's Children
Sarah McCoy | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry
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Absolutely loved this book and all of it's historical twists! Sarah McCoy definitely had me hooked again.
  
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Lindsay (1771 KP) rated

Sep 9, 2017  
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The Mapmaker's Children
Sarah McCoy | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry
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I loved this book with each turn of the page. It gave you two stories that went well together. You get a modern mystery. You also learn about history at that time.
 
This book has you learn about Sarah and her family. We learn about slavery and what it like to be a part of the UGRR? The historical fiction and story go through the past to the future.
 
What will happen to Sarah and helping other by being so brave? The abolitionist John Brown has a daughter that might really be talented. She and Eden have something in common. Will Eden uncover the secrets of the past to the future?
 
You do learn about slavery and what our country was going through at that time. Eden may find a story that connects to the Hills from the past to present.